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On a Winter’s Night A Traveler and its translation capture the rich imagination of the author, who charts a course through an expansive and mellifluous vocabulary. Audience members are encouraged to begin streaming the story on their phones an hour before they've even arrived at the venue. When they arrive they'll be greeted by a continuation of what they've already been listening to, as it spreads out from their individual space to a collective space we are all experiencing.

Recently, Mnemosyne has been building upon the idea of a hive or swarm of sounds that surround the listeners. We achieve this by having audience members stream one or more of our electronic tracks through their phone's speakers. The hope is that audience members will converge on Prospero’s Books like a swarm of bees, all while projecting the audio from their phones.

In many of our environmental installations, this has dispersed events not only in space but in sequence as well. The lag encountered, however fractional, by each individual phone, allows for many pleasing coincidental delays of each sound in the accompaniment.

Beyond the phone track, there will be five channels of unique audio creating a landscape of sound within the store. How active participants move through the bookstore will transform their experience and what they hear.